Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer — Scale APIs Europe

Basic Fit International B.V.; Tilburg; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expense reimbursement

Bicycle plan

Health insurance discount

Home-working allowance

Pension scheme (52% premium paid by)

Sport: Access to our gym

Job summary

Basic-Fit in Tilburg is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to shape how the team works and raise the bar on quality. You’ll focus on the backend, but will jump into frontend when needed, building scalable APIs used across six countries and millions of members.

You’ll collaborate with a mix of engineers, Product Owners and Designers, owning non-functional areas like security, privacy, and performance, and exploring AI tooling to improve development processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with at least part of the listed tech stack and willingness to share knowledge.
• Ability to manage risk and take ownership.
• Thrives in a fast-moving environment with minimal rituals.
• Eligible to work in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs handling millions of requests.
• Define Service Level Objectives for the APIs and systems.
• Drive structural improvements toward those objectives.
• Contribute to frontend when required.
• Support teams with documentation, architecture, and debugging.
• Help shape long-term engineering roadmap.
• Co-own non-functional topics like security, privacy, and performance.
• Drive AI adoption in development process.

Skills

Problem solving

Collaboration

Ownership

AI curiosity

Tools

React

TypeScript

Tailwind

Storybook

Service Workers

Next.js

Playwright

Nest.js

Prisma

Postgres

Redis

Azure EventGrid

Azure ServiceBus

Heroku

Azure DevOps

New Relic

Akamai

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Basic-Fit in Tilburg is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to shape how the team works and raise the bar on quality. You’ll focus on the backend, but will jump into frontend when needed, building scalable APIs used across six countries and millions of members.

You’ll collaborate with a mix of engineers, Product Owners and Designers, owning non-functional areas like security, privacy, and performance, and exploring AI tooling to improve development processes.